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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Plan your work - work your plan
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements ... The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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The man who has done his level best ... is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.
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Jealousy ... is a mental cancer.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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